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Author Archives: mstapleton

Bowdoin v. Colby–there’s nothing like a rivalry!

There’s nothing like a rivalry, and this past weekend’s Bowdoin v. Colby men’s hockey game–at the sold-out Watson arena on a snowy February night–didn’t disappoint.
With the right to host next weekend’s NESCAC finals hanging in the balance, the game incited all sort of craziness. Like fans who painted giant B’s on their chests and...

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Please welcome second shooter Angie Devenney

I’m very pleased to have Angie Devenney photographing alongside me again this summer. Angie, who started as an office assistant in September of 2007, also shot with me in 2008.  Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and InDesign, Angie is also involved in editing and print making. And, she has her own photo web site.

This is...

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New portfolios are ready to go

Another fun part of the rebranding effort has been producing a real time portfolio to go with the one that is online (the web site.)
Back in 2001 when I first launched MicheleStapleton.com, choices for portfolios were very limited; most photographers purchased a nice black leather portfolio at an art supply store and then produced twenty...

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Please excuse the growing pains

After several years with Blogger, I’ve switched to Wordpress and enhanced it with a custom theme developed specifically for photographers.
The new blog will allow me to run photos much larger, install my own logo, and make many more choices that wouldn’t be available with my old Blogger site.  
Being totally new to Wordpress and...

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New business cards sent to the printer today!

I’m in the midst of a “re-branding” for my MicheleStapleton web site, and part of the rebranding is designing a whole new look. I’m lucky to have a very talented graphic designer for a sister, see LisaWeldon.com, so obviously the rebranding job fell into her lap.
She came up with a handful of possible new logos and I shared...

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Great new travel photo blog to bookmark

If you like taking travel pictures and want a photography mentor, there’s no better choice than Bob Krist. A long-time contributor to some of the most beautiful magazines in print (e.g., National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, and Islands), Bob is not just a fantastic photographer; he is also a generous teacher and delightful writer.
If you can’t catch one of...

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Brunswick bids good-bye to highly successful coach

That sound you heard coming out of Brunswick earlier this week was a collective groan over the news that record-setting Bowdoin womens’ basketball coach Stefanie Pemper is leaving Maine.

The talented coach has been selected as womens’ basketball coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. In her ten years on the Brunswick campus Stefanie has guided the...

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Fiddle Dee!

I was fortunate to be asked to shoot a story on the Maine Fiddle Camp for Down East magazine. The story, shot last summer, appears in the April issue of the magazine, which is on the newsstands at this time.
I was told before shooting the story to focus on the camp food, and having spent many a...

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